I don't know if something like this exists: write a highly distributable script to solve some problem, then pay to distribute it over a large network. To get t

I don't know if something like this exists: write a highly distributable script to solve some problem, then pay to distribute it over a large network. To get the network, you could create an app like SETI@home which pays people for their idle cycles. Mechanical Turk, but with lots of computers instead of a few humans.